The event made quite a splash, generating new enthusiasm for
sustainability at the School, inspiring new leaders of these student
societies and providing a chance for environmentally-oriented students to
meet each other.

Green Impact launches its fifth year at LSE

Green Impact was
officially launched on Thursday 7
November. Chief Financial Officer Andy Farrell encouraged full
participation of staff in the scheme, which provides staff members with
an opportunity to improve LSE's overall sustainability by providing a
workbook which reduces the impact of small daily tasks.

Last year, over 1,800 actions were taken in areas like energy use,
procurement and waste, potentially saving over 100 tonnes of CO2 from
being emitted (using
Carbon Trust calculations). This year, workbooks are due to be
completed on 14 March 2014, so it's not too late to gather a team and
sign up your office. For more information on how to get started, please
contact LSE Sustainability Assistant Vyvyan Evans at
v.evans@lse.ac.uk

The EAUC promotes sustainability in tertiary education by sharing
expertise among its member institutions and representing the sector in
national policy-making circles.

The MAC, formed of 11 representatives from UK universities and
businesses, advises the EAUC board on policy matters and represents EAUC
member interests. This gives LSE a stronger voice in environmental
policy debates in the sector and at national level.

Sustainability collaboration with Management Department

The Estates Sustainability Team worked with the Information Systems and
Innovation Group in the Department of Management to integrate the theme
of sustainability into an undergraduate elective course on Business
Transformation and Project Management (MG208).

Dr Susan Scott (pictured, above) and Dr Ela Klecun (pictured, below)
filmed practitioners from a range of public and private domains sharing
insights into their experiences of different aspects of project
management and the management of change. The films, produced by the
Centre for Learning Technologies, were then posted on Moodle, LSE’s
web-based learning environment, and served as the basis for interactive
lectures with students.

Jon Emmett, LSE’s Sustainability Projects Officer, also contributed to a lecture on the course about integrating sustainability
into projects and institutions. Using the roll-out of the LSE recycling
bins as a case-study project, but also delving into an array of
sustainability-related themes, the students were encouraged to consider
how thinking holistically and working collaboratively can improve
project outcomes, as well as environmental and social sustainability.

Jon Emmett's reflections on the collaboration can be read in the
Sustainability at LSE blog
here.

LSE student finds a skull stapler at Relove

Relove Fair: 3-4 October

The annual Relove reuse event took place during Orientation Week.
Held simultaneously on the LSE campus and at Bankside Hall, items
donated by students moving out of Halls at the end of last year were
purchased by new students.

Reuse saves valuable items from ending up in landfill, as well as
providing a cheap source of items for new students joining LSE.
Refrigerators proved a very popular item at Bankside Hall, along with
the usual high demand for coat hangers! Thank you to all those who
volunteered on the Relove stalls this year - we could not have done it
without you.

The Relove scheme raised £1,500 for the Sustainable Projects Fund
which provides funding for sustainability projects at the School.
Currently the fund has £20,000 up for grabs in the coming year, so if
you have an idea for a sustainability project please do
make an
application soon. Don't forget to donate your 'nearly new' items at
the Relove collection points in the halls of residences at the end of
the year in July.

Sustainability in Practice lecture

On 12 November, LSE was lucky enough to host Pooran Desai, OBE.
Co-founder of the international organisation BioRegional, Pooran gave an
interesting talk titled 'Mainstreaming Sustainability: the last 20 years
and the next 20 years'. This lecture was the first in line of the LSE
Sustainability Team's 2013-14 Sustainability in Practice, which was
chaired by Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities.

Having set up innovative projects such as Britain's first zero-energy
housing developments in South London (BedZED) and another near Brighton,
Pooran shared some useful insights into how the concept of
sustainability has shaped society as well as where it might do so in
future. He challenged us to think critically about standards which
seemingly direct development towards sustainability, such as building
standards.

Interestingly, Pooran pointed out that often these standards are not
considerably better than the status quo, indicating that they still permit over-consumption of resources. Instead, he argued that it
is more useful to use the framework of 'One Planet Living', whereby
resource use is considered in light of living within the means of the
resources present on Earth. You can read more about the principles of
One Planet Living here.

ISO 14001 re-certification for LSE

LSE's Environmental
Management System (EMS) was re-certified for ISO 14001 status back in
July. This is a world-recognised standard that demonstrates the School
has robust systems in place to continually improve its environmental
impacts.

The external auditor, Dr Margaret Rooney, commented in her report,
'The EMS continues to be very well integrated into LSE's overall
commitment to sustainability...This is a very positive result." Click
here to read the School's Environmental Sustainability Policy.

Notices

How would you use £20k to improve environmental sustainability at
LSE?

The 2013-14 Sustainable Projects Fund (SPF) is now open for
applications, with up to £20,000 available to winning applicants.

The SPF is used to finance student and staff-led projects that enhance
sustainability on the LSE campus. Now in its fifth year, the fund has been
an innovative way to draw attention to priority areas of sustainability,
such as carbon management, biodiversity, waste reduction, energy, water use
and education/awareness. Previous projects include the green roof on top of
the Plaza Cafe (pictured), LSE beehives, greening of core maths courses, a
garden at Passfield Hall, bike maintenance stations and many more.

Sustainable Futures Society will once again pair up with the School's
Sustainability Team to assist interested staff and students with project
idea development and implementation. Look out for upcoming workshops put
on by the society, where more information can be found about how to best
start a project.

This year, £20,000 is up for grabs. The competition is open to LSE
students and staff and all projects must take place on the LSE campus or
halls of residence. To apply, visit
www.sustainablefuturessocietylse.com. The deadline for applications is 3
February 2014.

First annual environmental sustainability report due soon

The
LSE Sustainability Team is happy to announce that the first ever annual
Sustainability Report is near completion. It will highlight the School's
2012-13 progress against its
Environmental Sustainability Policy,
and document LSE's leadership in, and commitment to, environmental
sustainability.

There are many successes to report from
the last academic year, so make sure you get a copy, which should be
available online and in print in February 2014.

Expanding LSE's toilet revolution

The revolutionary loo
installed in an Old Building gents toilets has multiplied! The Estates
Division has now installed ten more Propelair® toilets in the women's
toilets in the Peacock Theatre. Using a vacuum pump, these toilets flush
with much less water, using just 1.5 litres as opposed to the conventional
nine litres.

Rt Hon. Stephen Timms MP, then chief secretary to the
Treasury, has proclaimed the significance of this technology, saying "the
Propelair® technology is an ingenious development. With
levels of water demand a growing concern in the UK - not least in the Thames Gateway - as well as in many
drier parts fo the world, it could play a very important future role as an
effective, economical solution."

LSE is a leader in toilet modernisation, being one of
the first London universities to install these low water-consumption loos.
The Estates Division needs your feedback in order to expand LSE's toilet
revolution. So ladies, please take the time to visit the loo in the Peacock
Theatre, and gents, please take the time to visit the one in OLD.B15. You
can send your feedback to Estates at
estates.follow-up-jobs@lse.ac.uk

Recycling
round up

Why does correct sorting matter? In October,
LSE was fined £150 for contaminating the recycling compactor
with food waste that had incorrectly been put in a mixed
recycling bin. As well as the unnecessary cost, this meant that
the waste could not be recycled and had to be sent to an
energy-from-waste plant instead, meaning that the waste had to
be transported twice and thereby increasing the amount of fuel,
and as a result, carbon emissions.

Reducing waste stream contamination

The start of term at LSE is a great time to
think about correct waste sorting and reduced waste contamination on campus.

To bring attention to waste issues at the School, a
three-day waste-sorting challenge was held in the Library Escape area, with
prizes on offer including Fairtrade chocolate and water-powered clocks.
Students were challenged to see who could sort a selection of waste into
correct bins in the quickest time.

This allowed members of the Sustainability Team to talk
to students about putting waste in correct streams and to dispel some
common myths about where certain types of waste go in our highly-sophisticated bins. In particular, it was highlighted that there is a big
difference between polystyrene and paper cups - paper cups can always be
recycled if free from food or beverage. Overall, the LSE students proved to
be a smart bunch, since waste sorting among students was of a high standard.
However, this needs to continue on a daily basis. All it takes is for
everyone to take a little time to put waste in the correct bin, so please
take care when sorting waste.

Catering suppliers take back what they bring

Richard Allen (pictured), Facilities Manager, has been working with Jacqui Beazley,
Deputy Head of Catering, and her team to reduce the amount of packaging
waste that arrives from catering suppliers.

Over the last two months, two suppliers have come on board with greening
our supply chain. Vegetable supplier Fresh & Fruity are collecting and
re-using the large boxes they deliver, and Simple Simon (chilled food)
now do the same. In Jacqui's own words, "onwards and upwards!" LSE is
now looking for other suppliers to follow the lead of these two
companies in working together to cut costs, cut waste and green their
supply chains.

Green
alumni

In this regular column we catch up with alumni involved in
sustainable activities and find out how their time at LSE shaped their
interest in sustainability.

Rupesh Madlani (BSc Economics, 1999)

Tell us a bit about
yourself?I run a firm that provides advice to governments, corporates and
high net worth individuals on sustainability. We are currently
supporting the launch of a EUR200m climate smart agriculture fund, one
of the first of its kind with dedicated sustainability metrics. The fund
manager has on average two decades of operating experience, with a
global perspective.

How has your time at LSE led to your current research interests?

My theoretical work at LSE on carbon management demonstrated to me that
there were market-based solutions to climate issues, something that I
carried with me into my professional career. At the time though it was
the internet, not sustainability, that captured the imagination of many
students.

LSE was the foundation to my joining PriceWaterhouseCoopers and
joining their corporate finance business. Once I had completed my
professional training as a chartered accountant that then led me to
investment banking at Lehman brothers, where the opportunity to get into
sustainability and raising money for corporates first began.

How has this interest in sustainability carried on since leaving
LSE?

During my banking career I was involved in raising $4bn for
companies in the sector and ranking first in the 2013 institutional
investor survey of asset managers. A lot of the intellectual and
personal skills that I developed at LSE were significant drivers for the
success that my team and I achieved.

If you could offer one piece of advice to LSE staff and students,
what would it be?

LSE is one of the world's finest educational establishments and the
experiences and friends you make will shape your career and your future.
LSE graduates through social entrepreneurship really have the capacity
to change the world, so make the most of every second!

Second hand is green. Try buying second hand or reusing old
presents for others (careful with this one!).

Residences
round-up

Student Switch-Off 2013-14

The
annual inter-hall battle that is Student Switch Off is well under way. This
year a record number of students attended the Ambassador training event
given by Michelle Farrell from the NUS and LSE Residences Sustainability
Officer Dan Reeves. Michelle and Dan also visited halls to engage students
in adopting energy-saving activities.

If you live in halls of residence, you can save yourself
some time, and the School some energy, by simply using a lid when you cook
food on the hob. Unnecessary electric heating and appliances like extra
printers and desk lamps are a thing of the past, so please switch off lights
when you're not in the room.

CompetitionEnter photos of you and your friends saving energy in halls to win NUS
Extra cards and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Get a movement going in your hall
and you could be this year's winner of the biggest energy reduction. Winners
receive the coveted plaque and a cash prise for their Common Room. Join
hundreds of other LSE students as they try to beat last year's six per cent
energy savings!

Rosebery awarded funding for bio-diversity project

Four hundred pounds has been generously donated to
sustainability projects in LSE residences by Gailarde Ltd, who supply
bedding and crockery to LSE halls. Of this, £160 has been allocated to
enhance the garden at Rosebery Hall, where native plants and hanging baskets
will be planted to improve the area for students and staff, and contribute
to local biodiversity. The work will be led by green-fingered Rosa Gil,
Front of House Manager at Rosebery Hall, AngeloGarcia, the hall's gardener (both
pictured) and Dr Julie McCandless, hall
warden.

The fund still has approximately £240 left to be allocated
for sustainability initiatives in halls of residence so if you have a
proposal in need of funding please contact Residences Sustainability Officer
Dan Reeves at d.reeves@lse.ac.uk

Greening halls procurement

Gailarde supply LSE
residences with thousands of pounds of bedding and crockery each year, and
therefore have a significant role in halls procurement and waste generation.
To investigate how LSE might green its supply chain, Dan Reeves, Residences
Sustainability Officer, Davindra Ratra, Northumberland House Manager, and
Mark Papworth, Purchasing, visited Gailarde in July.

During negotiations with Gailarde's suppliers, a range of
measures were agreed to reduce the waste produced by their student bedding
and crockery packs in
the future. These include a reduction in the number of 'boxes in boxes' at
the manufacturing stage for 2014-15 student packs, new printed wording on
the boxes to encourage recycling of all materials in the existing LSE waste
streams, and messages on their new website and in emails to student
customers reminding them to recycle all packaging in the residences
recycling bins.

While this effort makes loads of progress to reducing
futures waste at LSE, don't forget there is also space in each hall of
residence to collect and reuse gently-used items, as part of the LSE Relove
scheme.

60
Second Interview

I am a
second year undergraduate studying
Environment and Development. I was
born in London and love the city a
lot.

What would you do if you were LSE
Director for a day?

Big
party in the NAB, inviting the
homeless in who congregate around
Lincoln's Inn Fields for food on the
fourth floor.

What would be your ideal holiday?

Wandering wherever I fancy, equipped
with an American Express Black Card.

What change would you like to see in
the world in 50-100 years' time?

A
level of cooperation on issues such
as climate change and water rights
transcending political
disagreements.

What is your favourite biscuit?

Don't
know. Bananas.

If
you could live anywhere in the
world, where would you go and why?

Hawaii. Great standard of life,
close to nature, sun, sea.

What is your favourite film?

'Home'.
Being played at LSE by the Oikos
Society in the coming weeks so look
out for the posters. (This is
usually played by the LSESU Oikos
Society each term - check it out).

If
you could have three wishes, what
would they be?

To
have a clear idea of what I want.
Not to be on a computer so much.
Have everyone in my life who I love
in one room at one moment to express
my love to them, thank them, and hug
them all.

Advice

Want
to know more?

If you have any questions about the sustainability work going on around
campus or would like to become involved, why not contact one of the many
Green Impact Leaders who take active roles in the School's work in this
area.